2022
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202210.0238.v1
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From Twitter to Aso-Rock: A Natural Language Processing Spotlight for Understanding Nigeria 2023 Presidential Election

Abstract: Introduction: Social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, among others have been used as a tool for staging protests, opinion polls, campaign strategy, medium of agitation and a place of interest expression especially during elections. Past studies have established people’s opinion elections using social media posts. The advent of state-of-the-art algorithms for unstructured text processing implies tremendous progress in natural language processing and understanding. Aim: In this work… Show more

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“…Unlike in the past where the Presidential election results were dominated by APC and PDP only, the Presidential election which held on the 25 th February, 2023 was keenly contested by three political parties with the winning distribution shown in Figure 1. This is as rightly predicted by authors in previous study [14]. After the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) -the election conducting body -announced the results of Presidential election, there have been allegations of rigging, misconducts and misappropriation in the electoral process, improper conducts, unacceptable result transmission from polling booths, amongst others, thereby electrifying the Twitter space.…”
Section: Study Premisesupporting
confidence: 75%
“…Unlike in the past where the Presidential election results were dominated by APC and PDP only, the Presidential election which held on the 25 th February, 2023 was keenly contested by three political parties with the winning distribution shown in Figure 1. This is as rightly predicted by authors in previous study [14]. After the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) -the election conducting body -announced the results of Presidential election, there have been allegations of rigging, misconducts and misappropriation in the electoral process, improper conducts, unacceptable result transmission from polling booths, amongst others, thereby electrifying the Twitter space.…”
Section: Study Premisesupporting
confidence: 75%
“…Studies on the 2023 general elections in Nigeria have been conducted from different perspectives. First, Olabanjo, Wusu, Afisi, Asokere, Padonu, Olabanjo, & Mazzara (2023) investigated tweets connected to the three main presidential contenders in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election to determine the power of social media and how it has been utilized to influence elections and electoral institutions in Nigeria. The study used a variety of theoretical models to categorize tweets as positive, neutral, or negative.…”
Section: Review Of Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Especially the Nigerian youths demand that the next president would fix these issues. Already during the COVID-19 pandemic they were involved in politics, reinforced by social media (Olabanjo, et al, 2022), at a rate never seen before, despite brutal repression of the protests by the police. Therefore, political augurs already cautioned that the new president should get his economic policies right or risk an implosion like that of the Arab Spring (Onyeiwu, 2023).…”
Section: Likelihood Of Coup Attemptsmentioning
confidence: 99%